"And the
great issue now of homosexuality in your country, that shall be on the balance
that Michael holds. Unless this balance is evened by removing this evil from
your country and bringing in just laws to prevent the spread of homosexuality,
you cannot be saved; your country cannot be saved. Because I repeat again, as I
have repeated in the past: When a country has given itself over to immorality
and all pleasures of the flesh, and abominations of the flesh, then that country
will fall! If you do not believe Me, My children, I say: You will read your
history books, and you will find out that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah. And
what did We do to that abominable city, Sodom? We destroyed it! And what did
We do to Gomorrah? We destroyed it! And We destroyed all who did not follow
the plan for their redemption." Jesus, November 1, 1985

The Code of Canon Law
undertaken at the initiative and encouragement of Saint Pius X, and
published in 1917 by his successor Pope Benedict XV, says this: “So far
as laymen are concerned, the sin of sodomy is punished ipso facto with
the pain of infamy and other sanctions to be applied according to the prudent
judgment of the Bishop depending on the gravity of each case (Can. 2357). As
for ecclesiastics and religious, if they are clerici minoris [that is, of
the degree lower than deacon], let them be punished with various measures,
proportional to the gravity of the fault, that can even include dismissal from
the clerical state (Can. 2358); if they are clerici maiores [that is,
deacons, priests or bishops], let them ‘be declared infamous and
suspended from every post, benefit, dignity, deprived of their eventual stipend
and, in the gravest cases, let them be deposed’ (Can. 2359, par. 2)”

Tertullian,
the great apologist of the Church in the second century, writes: “All other
frenzies of lusts which exceed the laws of nature and are impious toward both
bodies and the sexes we banish … from all shelter of the Church, for they are
not sins so much as monstrosities.” (Tertullian, De pudicitia, IV, in J.
McNeil, op. cit., p. 89)

Saint Basil of Caesarea,
the fourth century Church Father who wrote the principal rule of the monks of
the East, establishes this: “The cleric or monk who molests youths or boys or is
caught kissing or committing some turpitude, let him be whipped in public,
deprived of his crown [tonsure] and, after having his head shaved, let his face
be covered with spittle; and [let him be] bound in iron chains, condemned to six
months in prison, reduced to eating rye bread once a day in the evening three
times per week. After these six months living in a separate cell under the
custody of a wise elder with great spiritual experience, let him be subjected to
prayers, vigils and manual work, always under the guard of two spiritual
brothers, without being allowed to have any relationship … with young people.”
(St. Basil of Caesarea, in St. Peter Damien, Liber Gomorrhianus, op. cit.
cols. 174f.)

Saint Augustine
is categorical in the combat against sodomy and similar vices. The great Bishop
of Hippo writes: “Sins against nature, therefore, like the sin of Sodom, are
abominable and deserve punishment whenever and wherever they are committed. If
all nations committed them, all alike would be held guilty of the same charge in
God’s law, for our Maker did not prescribe that we should use each other in this
way. In fact, the relationship that we ought to have with God is itself violated
when our nature, of which He is Author, is desecrated by perverted lust.”
Further on he reiterates: “Your punishments are for sins which men commit
against themselves, because, although they sin against You, they do wrong in
their own souls and their malice is self-betrayed. They corrupt and pervert
their own nature, which You made and for which You shaped the rules, either by
making wrong use of the things which You allow, or by becoming inflamed with
passion to make unnatural use of things which You do not allow” (Rom. 1:26).
(St. Augustine, Confessions, Book III, chap. 8)

Saint John Chrysostom
denounces homosexual acts as being contrary to nature. Commenting on the Epistle
to the Romans (1: 26-27), he says that the pleasures of sodomy are an
unpardonable offense to nature and are doubly destructive, since they threaten
the species by deviating the sexual organs away from their primary procreative
end and they sow disharmony between men and women, who no longer are inclined by
physical desire to live together in peace.

The brilliant
Patriarch of Constantinople employs most severe words for the vice we are
analyzing. Saint John Chrysostom makes this strong argument: “All passions are
dishonorable, for the soul is even more prejudiced and degraded by sin than is
the body by disease; but the worst of all passions is lust between men…. The
sins against nature are more difficult and less rewarding, since true pleasure
is only the one according to nature. But when God abandons a man, everything is
turned upside down! Therefore, not only are their passions [of the homosexuals]
satanic, but their lives are diabolic….. So I say to you that these are even
worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such
dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these
destroy the soul inside the body….. There is nothing, absolutely nothing more
mad or damaging than this perversity.” (St. John Chrysostom, In Epistulam ad
Romanos IV, in J. McNeill, op. cit., pp. 89-90)

Saint Gregory the Great
delves deeper into the symbolism of the fire and brimstone that God used to
punish the sodomites: “Brimstone calls to mind the foul odors of the flesh, as
Sacred Scripture itself confirms when it speaks of the rain of fire and
brimstone poured by the Lord upon Sodom. He had decided to punish in it the
crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment emphasized the shame of
that crime, since brimstone exhales stench and fire burns. It was, therefore,
just that the sodomites, burning with perverse desires that originated from the
foul odor of flesh, should perish at the same time by fire and brimstone so that
through this just chastisement they might realize the evil perpetrated under the
impulse of a perverse desire.” (St. Gregory the Great, Commento morale a
Giobbe, XIV, 23, vol. II, p. 371, Ibid., p. 7)

Saint Peter Damian’sLiber Gomorrhianus [Book of Gomorrha], addressed to Pope Leo IX in the
year 1051, is considered the principal work against homosexuality. It reads:
“Just as Saint Basil establishes that those who incur sins [against nature] …
should be subjected not only to a hard penance but a public one, and Pope
Siricius prohibits penitents from entering clerical orders, one can clearly
deduce that he who corrupts himself with a man through the ignominious squalor
of a filthy union does not deserve to exercise ecclesiastical functions, since
those who were formerly given to vices … become unfit to administer the
Sacraments.” (St. Peter Damian, op. cit., cols. 174f)

St. Peter Damian also
writes:

“This vice strives to
destroy the walls of one’s heavenly motherland and rebuild those of devastated
Sodom. Indeed, it violates temperance, kills purity, stifles chastity and
annihilates virginity ... with the sword of a most infamous union. It infects,
stains and pollutes everything; it leaves nothing pure, there is nothing but
filth ... This vice expels one from the choir of the ecclesiastical host and
obliges one to join the energumens and those who work in league with the devil;
it separates the soul from God and links it with the demons. This most
pestiferous queen of the Sodomites [which is homosexuality] makes those who obey
her tyrannical laws repugnant to men and hateful to God ... It humiliates at
church, condemns at court, defiles in secret, dishonors in public, gnaws at the
person’s conscience like a worm and burns his flesh like fire...
“The miserable flesh burns with the fire of lust, the cold intelligence
trembles under the rancor of suspicion, and the unfortunate man’s heart is
possessed by hellish chaos, and his pains of conscience are as great as the
tortures in punishment he will suffer ... Indeed, this scourge destroys the
foundations of faith, weakens the force of hope, dissipates the bonds of
charity, annihilates justice, undermines fortitude, ... and dulls the edge of
prudence.
“What else shall I say? It expels all the forces of virtue from the temple
of the human heart and, pulling the door from its hinges, introduces into it all
the barbarity of vice ... In effect, the one whom ... this atrocious beast [of
homosexuality] has swallowed down its bloody throat is prevented, by the weight
of his chains, from practicing all good works and is precipitated into the very
abysses of its uttermost wickedness. Thus, as soon as someone has fallen into
this chasm of extreme perdition, he is exiled from the heavenly motherland,
separated from the Body of Christ, confounded by the authority of the whole
Church, condemned by the judgment of all the Holy Fathers, despised by men on
earth, and reproved by the society of heavenly citizens. He creates for himself
an earth of iron and a sky of bronze ... He cannot be happy while he lives nor
have hope when he dies, because in life he is obliged to suffer the ignominy of
men’s derision and later, the torment of eternal condemnation” (Liber
Gomorrhianus, in PL 145, col. 159-178).

Saint Albert the Great
gives four reasons why he considers homosexual acts as the most detestable ones:
They are born from an ardent frenzy; they are disgustingly foul; those who
become addicted to them are seldom freed from that vice; they are as contagious
as disease, passing quickly from one person to another. (St. Albert the Great,
In Evangelium Lucae XVII, 29, in J. McNeill, op. cit., p. 95)

Saint Thomas Aquinas,
writing about sins against nature, explains: “However, they are called passions
of ignominy because they are not worthy of being named, according to that
passage in Ephesians (5:12): ‘For the things that are done by them in secret, it
is a shame even to speak of.’ For if the sins of the flesh are commonly
censurable because they lead man to that which is bestial in him, much more so
is the sin against nature, by which man debases himself lower than even his
animal nature.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Super Epistulas Sancti Pauli Ad Romanum
I, 26, pp. 27f)

Saint Bonaventure,
speaking in a sermon at the church of Saint Mary of Portiuncula about the
miracles that took place simultaneously with the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ,
narrates this: “Seventh prodigy: All sodomites—men and women—died all over the
earth, as Saint Jerome said in his commentary on the psalm ‘The light was born
for the just.’ This made it clear that He was born to reform nature and promote
chastity.” (St. Bonaventure, Sermon XXI—In Nativitate Domini, in
Catolicismo (Campos/Sao Paulo), December 1987, p. 3; F. Bernardei, op. cit.,
p. 11)

Saint Catherine of
Siena, a religious mystic of the 14th
century, relays words of Our Lord Jesus Christ about the vice against nature,
which contaminated part of the clergy in her time. Referring to sacred
ministers, He says: “They not only fail from resisting this frailty [of fallen
human nature] … but do even worse as they commit the cursed sin against nature.
Like the blind and stupid, having dimmed the light of their understanding, they
do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. For this
not only causes Me nausea, but displeases even the demons themselves, whom these
miserable creatures have chosen as their lords. For Me, this sin against nature
is so abominable that, for it alone, five cities were submersed, by virtue of
the judgment of My Divine Justice, which could no longer bear them…. It is
disagreeable to the demons, not because evil displeases them and they find
pleasure in good, but because their nature is angelic and thus is repulsed upon
seeing such an enormous sin being committed. It is true that it is the demon who
hits the sinner with the poisoned arrow of lust, but when a man carries out such
a sinful act, the demon leaves.” (St. Catherine of Siena, El diálogo, in
Obras de Santa Catarina de Siena (Madrid: BAC, 1991), p. 292)

Saint Bernardine of
Siena, a preacher of the fifteenth
century, makes an accurate psychological analysis of the consequences of the
homosexual vice. The illustrious Franciscan writes: “No sin has greater power
over the soul than the one of cursed sodomy, which was always detested by all
those who lived according to God….. Such passion for undue forms borders on
madness. This vice disturbs the intellect, breaks an elevated and generous state
of soul, drags great thoughts to petty ones, makes [men] pusillanimous and
irascible, obstinate and hardened, servilely soft and incapable of anything.
Furthermore, the will, being agitated by the insatiable drive for pleasure, no
longer follows reason, but furor…. Someone who lived practicing the vice of
sodomy will suffer more pains in Hell than any one else, because this is the
worst sin that there is.” (St. Bernardine of Siena, Predica XXXIX, in
Le prediche volgari (Milan: Rizzoli, 1936), pp. 869ff., 915, in F. Bernadei,
op. cit., pp. 11f)

"Are you so
blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders
abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion,
homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet
sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge
of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you
reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a
punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice." - Our
Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981

The awesome
Bayside Prophecies...
http://www.tldm.org/../Bayside/These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica
Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

READ YOUR BIBLES"Your word of homosexuality can be explained by
the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Read in your Bibles or consult your clergy.
Find yourselves, My children, a humble, pious clergy. Many have fallen away
from the Faith." Our Lady, October 6, 1992

PASTORS HELD RESPONSIBLE"We hold the pastors of My Son's House, We hold
them as being responsible for the fall of the children. Be ye warned now, My
children, that woe to the man who has this responsibility upon his conscience
and his soul. Scandals have been brought into the lives of your children.
Perversion, homosexuality, immorality, perverted sex, My children-where shall
you stop but at the abyss!" Our Lady, December 7, 1977

AN ABOMINATION"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin.
Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns
those who do not repent of this sin." Our Lady, August 5, 1977

BLACK CLOUD OVER AMERICA"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving
themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying,
giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful
with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women.
As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America."
Our Lady, July 14, 1979

SODOM: "WE DESTROYED IT""And the great issue now of homosexuality in your
country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds. Unless this balance
is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to
prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be
saved. Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past: When a country
has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and
abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall! If you do not believe
Me, My children, I say: You will read your history books, and you will find out
that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah. And what did We do to that abominable
city, Sodom? We destroyed it! And what did We do to Gomorrah? We destroyed
it! And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption."
Jesus, November 1, 1985

SIN:
FORERUNNER OF WAR"For sin is always a forerunner for war, My
children: murders, persecutions, robberies, all manners of sins of the flesh,
homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion, sodomy. Sodom and Gomorrah fell for less
sins than you have committed now upon your earth. Noah took to the ark and the
world was in a better state spiritually than your world now; for you have
accepted a sophisticated manner of sin, based on man's reasoning and not God's
truth." Our Lady, October 2, 1979

ANY COUNTRY"Any country that allows homosexuals to roam and
to seduce the young shall be destroyed." Our Lady, June 30, 1984

Clear Vatican statement
against ordaining homosexuals: "a person who is homosexual or has homosexual
tendencies is not, therefore, suitable to receive the sacrament of sacred
orders." http://www.tldm.org/News5/Estevez.htm